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CVE-2008-4539

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA implementation in (1) KVM before kvm-82 and (2) QEMU on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu might allow local users to gain privileges by using the VNC console for a connection, aka the LGD-54XX "bitblt" heap overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-1320.

Score
7.2 high
Published
2008-12-29
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (1)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
emulators/qemu-cheriqemu-cheri0.d20260108unaddressedbrooks@FreeBSD.org

VuXML

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Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.

  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>qemu-cheri</name>
	<range><lt>0.10.0</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA implementation in (1) KVM
	before kvm-82 and (2) QEMU on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu might allow
	local users to gain privileges by using the VNC console for a
	connection, aka the LGD-54XX "bitblt" heap overflow.  NOTE: this issue
	exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-1320.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2008-4539</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4539</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2008-12-29</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>